SquareSpace Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

Website

• Templates and Design Tools: Access customizable templates that support all major content types, like blogs, galleries, pages, calendars and more. Use the latest HTML, Javascript and CSS transcripts to edit templates. Use customized color palettes, video and background banners, images via Unsplash, Google and TypeKit fonts, a built-in photo editor and more. 
• Layout and Pages: Use pre-designed structures to create websites and add blocks, menus, links, maps, forms, files, buttons, charts, custom codes and social media icons. Duplicate text pages, use CSS editor and create custom redirect pages. Design websites that automatically adapt to the device it is accessed on without changing the overall style of the website. 
• Commenting System: Incorporate a commenting system that helps with community management, flagging spam messages, disabling comments, threading comments, counting individual likes and moderating content. 
• Multiple Contributors and Access Levels: Restrict permission to access based on role and use a single login to handle multiple sites simultaneously. Provide access levels, including content editing, reporting, store managing, administrating, billing and more. 
• Passwords and Page Lock: Lock websites with a password while editing it, use a password to create private sections and customize page displays for visitors when locked by a password. 
• Built-In Mobile Websites: Design websites that automatically adapt to the device it is accessed on without changing the overall style of the website. 
• App: Use an app available on Android and iOS to manage websites, add or edit pages, add images, write and edit blogs and review traffic analytics. Manage inventory, orders and customers as well as add products and issue returns while on the go. 
• Extensions: Use third-party tools to manage sales transactions, handle inventory and accounting, file taxes, streamline bookkeeping, promote products, ship products and more. Connect with Google Analytics and Disqus. 
• Blogging: Publish, draft, schedule and mark posts for review. Use markdown block to add text, change layouts as per the blog content and automate the process of reformatting content for email campaigns. Manage audio blocks, blog post options and podcast support for better visibility. Save excerpts and source URLs, use accelerated mobile pages to create lightweight web pages, add subscribe buttons, access built-in RSS feeds and link titles to external URLs. 
• Portfolios: Drag and drop images, add videos and audio files to pages or blog posts, and set videos or images as backgrounds. Access a built-in image editor, create landing pages with links to sub-pages, use lightbox to highlight images, define focal points for images and auto-fill tags, tiles and descriptions when importing images. 

Commerce

• Sell Products, Services and More: Showcase and sell thousands of products. Sell product subscriptions and services on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Allow booking and scheduling of services on the website. Sell digital content like ebooks and music via customized email links. 
• Product Management: Use drag-and-drop sorting tools, tags and scheduling settings to add, sort and manage products. Divide products into subcategories and automatically create category pages, display products using list view, show related products and set zoom view on click or hover. Add images for multi-dimensional product variants and manage costs for them individually. 
• Labels and Discount: Set visibility of limited availability labels to indicate limited stock. Automatically create discounts that are applicable to entire orders or selected products. Allow customers to redeem digital gift cards online or in person using the commerce app. 
• Inventory and Order Management: Manage inventory, view stock levels and receive email notifications when stock levels decrease. Track pending orders, send update emails to customers and print packing slips from a single platform. 
• Checkout process: Choose colors, add logos, set checkout forms that include special messages and include delivery instructions and gift requests to customize the checkout process. Offer secure single-page checkout adaptable on all devices and the option for customers to directly jump to the checkout page. 
• Customer Accounts: Ask customers to create an account to sign in for faster checkout and to access member-only pages or content. Use the information to create a customer base, track purchases and identify frequent buyers. 
• Payment Management: Accept payments through credit card, debit card and Apple Pay in multiple currencies via PayPal, Stripe and Square. Offer the option of paying later in installments by adding Afterpay to the page. Sell in person by connecting to a Square account to accept payments and to sync sales, inventory and data with online stores. 
• Shipping: Give customers a carrier-calculated shipping estimate, set up multiple and flexible shipping options, follow country specific shipping regulations and use 3D packing algorithms to estimate the size and cost of individual packages. 
• Members Lounge: Build a community of subscribers, monetize content, set pricing structures and store member information. Member areas connect with email marketing modules and offer a centralized view of every campaign, lead and subscriber. 
• Restaurant and Hospitality: Leverage partnership with Tock, a reservation management platform, to design food websites. Customize menus, handle deliveries, manage bookings, offer prepaid reservations and track customer data. Provides a built-in CRM, point-of-sale integration and contactless payment processing. 

Domains

• Purchasing Domains: Register for a custom domain that renews yearly at the same price and is directly linked to the website or transfer a third-party domain. Get a custom email address matching the domain name via a partnership with Google Workspace. 
• Security and Privacy: Receive a SSL certificate and a HIPAA-compliant BAA. Adhere to WHOIS privacy and PCI compliance. 

Marketing

• Email Campaigns: Create custom-layout email campaigns by integrating and editing content on mobile or desktop devices. Offers a template library and drag-and-drop editor to customize emails. Access mailing lists to send campaigns to targeted customers. 
• Social Networking: Use the mobile app, Unfold, to create multimedia content using templates, filters, effects and more. Pre-schedule content for posting on multiple channels. Design personalized bios with links to social accounts and share direct links to websites and bios on posts, stories and comments. 
• Video Maker: Capture, resize and edit videos. Autofill brand elements like business color, logo and product images. Use templates, write scripts for voiceovers and teleprompters, and share videos on every channel and account. 
• Banners and Promotion: Use intuitive banners and promotions to highlight seasonal sales, discounts or holiday hours. 
• Customization: Customize or add a favicon (browser icon) to make a website easily recognizable. Add forms to collect information from visitors and include over 15 data types like address, email, currency and more. 
• SEO: Access built-in SEO tools like site map, HTML markup, automatic tagging, static URLs, canonical tags, anti-spam, automatic redirects, AMP and more. 

Analytics

• Analytics: View traffic, sales, revenue and visitor geography. Track latest trends and performance metrics, and gain insights into marketing, customers and traffic sources. Track data on purchase funnels and abandoned carts. 
• Engagement Analytics: Use activity logs, popular content, RSS subscribers, site search keywords and form and button conversions to track engagements. Gain insight into keywords that attract traffic and their sources. 

Scheduling

• Calendar: Set availability, add or edit multiple calendars, set limits for accepting appointments and sync calendars with Google, Outlook, iCloud and Office 365. Enable staff to view appointment times in their own time zones. 
• Reminders: Send customized and automatic confirmations, reminders and follow-up text messages and emails. 
• Social Selling: Allow customers to directly book appointments from Instagram and Facebook by linking the website with their business accounts. 

Logo

• Logo: Choose a suitable icon from The Noun Project or create a new logo with custom images and text. Preview logos on websites, business cards and t-shirts. Download in white on black, black on white and in color. 

Limitations

•  Lacks mobile customizations. 
•  Doesn’t offer exhaustive reporting functionality. 
•  Drag-and-drop website builders lack customizations. 
•  In-depth analytics is only available with the enterprise pricing plan. 

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